Groundnut
Sow in December, harvest around April
Still sowing time: sow by the end of December.
No figures for this season in your district. Priced from mandis across your state.
Only with irrigation: rain gives too little of its water to count on
- Doesn't suit: Too dry without irrigation
- Doesn't suit: Too cold here in this season
- Suits: Soil 8/10
Why, and how to make it work Hide details
Water
Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.
Needs about 370 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year, and 0 mm in a dry year.
Temperature
Grows best at 22–32 °C on average, and survives 10–45 °C.
Here, in its growing months (day / night):
- Dec 25 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
- Jan 22 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
- Feb 27 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
- Mar 32 °C / 15 °C
Nights in December can bring frost while the plants are young. Sow a little later, or cover the seedlings on cold nights.
Soil
Soil for Groundnut: 8 out of 10 (good).
Not in the score: nitrogen, potassium and boron.
- The pH here suits it.
- Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
Likes pH 5.5–6.5.
How the soil score worksMoney
Yield: about 7.3 quintals an acre here in its other seasons (district figures).
Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.
Mandi price at last season's harvest (April–May 2026): about ₹6,263 a quintal across mandis in your state.
This week: about ₹7,376 a quintal, the middle of 2 mandis in your district (latest 11 Nov).
Minimum support price: ₹7,517 a quintal (2026-27), if you sell to government procurement.
- ₹5,170 2021
- ₹5,330 2022
- ₹6,220 2023
- ₹5,020 2024
- ₹4,600 2025
Prices are usually best in September.
Typical costs are about ₹40,000 an acre (seed, fertiliser, labour and hired machines, from the government's cost survey). They are spent whatever the harvest.
How to make it work
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Short of organic carbon Your soil is likely short of organic carbon.
Add 4 tonnes of compost or farmyard manure per acre before sowing, and plough crop leftovers back in instead of burning them.
Few local farmers add it to this crop, so it's an easy place to get ahead.
What local farmers put on it (share of fields):
- Urea 70%
- Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) 60%
- Single Super Phosphate (SSP) 24%
- Muriate of Potash (MOP) 10%